[Magdalen] Rent.

[Roger Stokes]

On 06/08/2016 02:02, Cantor03--- via Magdalen wrote:
> On a tangent -
>   
> I think it was Fountains Abbey (Cistercian) in England that was so
> designed that the monks' sewerage was deposited directly into the
> river that ran by the Abbey complex.  This was probably fine for  the
> monks, but not so fine for anyone living downstream.

I think that was quite common in medieval monasteries.  As for those 
downstream, there would have been sheep there who would be doing the 
same in greater numbers but smaller packages.  People (including 
children) drank beer because it was safer than water.

Roger